GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| scourge | whip |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |